Life Science Sweden heads to the Oresund region! ‒ Hello there Michael Linnell

Life Science Sweden’s The Future of Swedish Danish Life Science and New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meetings are coming up soon. We asked Mich...

Säker avluftning och koll på läget – ISO 13849-1

Nya VP546/746 från SMC är en 3-ports magnetventil med avluftning, enligt säkerhetsstandard ISO 13849-1.

“Conducting research at universities is becoming more and more like working at a research hotel”

The government wants Swedish research to focus on excellence and innovation, but can the two be combined? Life Science Sweden talks to Anna Falk, a professor at...

Major advances in IVF labs in the last few decades

Since the introduction of in vitro fertilisation several decades ago, many developments have been made in the field, and the main part of that development has t...

The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector

We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.

SMC lanserar nya produkter för batteritillverkning

Vårt sortiment för tillverkning av laddningsbara batterier växer ständigt och nu lanserar vi ett antal nya luftbehandlingsenheter.

Efficient use of blood plasma

Blood plasma is an indispensable resource in the production of life-saving medicines. It is in high demand on global markets. To make more efficient use of this...

Nobel Prize winner Torsten Wiesel turns 100: “Old men like me should use their experience to help the young”

In 1955, a young Torsten Wiesel jumped on a boat to the US and embarked on a fabulous career as a neuroscientist, crowned with a Nobel Prize for his work. Now 1...

Synact rekryterar ny CFO inifrån

Patrik Renblad blir CFO hos bioteknikföretaget Synact Pharma. Han har arbetat som vice president finance i företaget sedan augusti 2021, men kommer nu ta över C...

A surprising discovery about the immune system in cases of cancer

Professor Göran Jönsson is trying to understand why some patients benefit from immunotherapies while others don’t. A couple of years ago, he made a surprising d...

Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president

In mid-summer, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as President of Stanford following allegations of manipulated study data. According...

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

How to optimise your liquid handling results

In dispensing or pipetting applications in laboratory automation, it is important to obtain reliable results, which are analysed by calculating the accuracy and...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Integrated solutions for liquid handling

Greater efficiency for manufacturers in laboratory automation and many other industries

Tougher competition as the Novo Nordisk Foundation broadens its programme

Søren Nedergaard has worked with innovation at the Danish Government Offices and the University of Copenhagen. Today, he is COO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, ...

How critical are the “Spermageddon” reports? – Researchers call for action

A much talked about meta-study indicates that sperm concentration in men’s seminal fluid has halved in 40 years. Experts in andrology that Life Science Sweden s...

Epilepsigener pekar mot ny behandling

I den största internationella studien i sitt slag har 11 nya gener kopplade till epilepsi upptäckts.

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

Pilots want to live too

En CRO-veteran fyller år

Från början byggdes företaget kring en enorm kardiologisk klinisk studie. Nu fyller A + Science 20 år och är ett rutinerat CRO-bolag som står på många ben.

Kliver in på börsen

Addlife tar plats på Stockholmsbörsen.

Rapid system for surface hygiene monitoring

The Clean-Trace Surface Testing Instruments are a rapid solution to monitor biological contamination on surfaces in real time to help customers manage their cle...

New automated solution for flexible molecular assays

The fully integrated Qiasymphony is a new automated platform for flexible molecular testing.